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Lessons from South Africa’s Minimum Wage Problem
A recent story on how the minimum wage is hurting South African workers is getting some attention. It opens with this tragic scene: The sheriff arrived at the factory here to shut it down, part of a...
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What the new minimum wage research says
Via Mark Thoma comes an interview with economist Arindrajit Dube about his research on the minimum wage: In an interview with The Real News, Arindrajit Dube, labor economist and Assistant Professor of...
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Why the minimum wage should go
Karl responded recently to a post by Barbara Kiviat who wondered “why should we care about the minimum wage?”. Karl’s general point is that the minimum wage is harming lot’s of families, and Barbara’s...
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A Strategy For Democrats
Here is David Brooks’ advice about how the President can bargain with both parties to make progress towards fixing some of our long-term problems: Most important, the president will probably have to...
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Yet even more on the minimum wage
Pivoting off Karl’s recent posts, I want to throw my two cents in on the minimum wage. Actually, I’ll make that one cent, because I’ve already written about my take on the empirical evidence plenty...
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